THE NEW YORKER when he landed at last in the conical bot- tom of the pipe, the jar was no greater than that of a fall on the ice. Nor was there any danger of suffocation, for the organ pump was still working, and it was easy for the sexton to turn a stiff breeze into the pipe. But how to get out ? Jones confessed that for a while he was baffled. He could hear what was going on outside, and he soon picked up the news that the sexton proposed to effect his rescue with an axe. The rector, it appeared, objected to this, and so did Jones, for he knew the crude technique of sextons and feared that the axe which liberated him might also decapitate him. In the end he hit on a hetter scheme, and shouted a command that it be ex- ecuted. It consisted in sending for rig- gers, hoisting the pipe out of the steeple, turning it upside down, and then bounc- ing out Jones on a leap-tick of pew cushions heaped up on the sidewalk. There were sassy young reporters who refused to believe this story, and some of them asked searching- and embarrass- L' ing questions, with diagrams designed to show its impossibility, but Jones always stuck to it, and many who doubted when they first heard it came to believe after- ward. It was only one chapter in a long saga of Jones's ad ven tures as a performer of sacred music. One of his favorite tricks, he said, was to search out a pipe whose sound made the stained-glass windows of the church vibrate in unison, and then pop them off in the midst of a solemn anthem, to the alarm of the clergy, choir, and congregation. He said he had learned how to do this trick with an or- dinary parlor, or reed, organ and oncé utilized his skill to liberate a baby in arms from a bank vault. The baby's mother, it appeared, had put it in the vault without notifying the bank per- sonnel, and as a result it had been im- prisoned when the time lock clamped down. When Jones was sent for he bor- rowed an organ from a nearby sailors' bethel, found a note in it that would vibrate steel, and so shook the time lock to pieces. Why the mother had chosen a bank vault for storing her baby, and how she managed to stow it away with- out being noticed, he did not say. Toward the end of his life, Jones for- got his noble French ancestry and began shopping around the world for fore- fathers, and even for fathers. \Vhen- ever a bulletin came in announcing the death of some eminent man, he would stagger out into the city room with the Associated Press flimsy, apply his hand- kerchief to his eyes, and sob piteously. The city editor was then expected to 73 Smoke V C E R 0 ,>,,>'\))\í))i))íì . ,..;':\'l))))))))\\) .c . .' ':', ; , ' ))))) ' ) ) )) ---- ..',' \\\ . . _.:_.".10. , 0 0 : ' "':'.'::'::': :' ::::':::. ::. <'" ---o ,..:.,\))))))).'.;::: < : .: : . .: : . . :. . :: . : . . ,,\\j;)iii - . ".,>t:%IF:"i' ) ) ))) 1 ::- Æ{> ;oS.: "';:': ":.:.: }' 6)".:> .>, /.<- ..,. .- S . :t';'w" - :0100 ::!!j..:Wi 'ç;f:>II.-.):::;o.; MADE ,.,..' . ..' '. . , . ...,. " ,'. THE FILTER TIP IS BETTER FOR YOU No tobacco crumbs to stain your teeth. Throat irritants are checked. : ; W 'i :;..: :: True tobacco flavor is brought out. And the cork tips save your lips. . . . AND YOUR SMOKE COMES CLEAN ==--" = ' " lW m; .. .:.:.:.:- { ....0,;.:.;.:... 0.: ..;:;: '.ft ... hO.OOO_O-"'..""'" :..... "}r .. ... .. ... . ............ ."r..::: ;r... '. .... ... ...... . . ........... '. t.; r' ........ .. ;t........... .. .. .. .,.... * w :::O:::::-::"-: -:::.. .. : :; ..:.:.:.:-:..... .:.-:;:::;:=:.:.:.. .:::.:.:.;.:..........;.:.:.:.:.. :-:.:.:-:-',; FOR YOUR CONVE..NIE..NCE.. THE NEW YORKER, 2.5 WES T 4JRD 5 TREE T. NEW YORK CITY Please enter my subscription to your magðzine for D 1 YEAR-$5.00 0 2 YEA RS-$7.00. My remittance is enclosed. Subscribers order- ing a change of ad- dress are requested to notify us at least three weeks prior to the date of the issue with which it is to take effect. Canada, One year $6.00; 2 years $9.00. Foreign, One year $7.00; 2 years $11.00. Pan America and Spain One year $5.50; 2 years $8.00 NAME ADDRESS